One year PG Diploma in Intellectual Property Rights Law - NLSIU

Before I begin this post, this is my mantra since the last few years when I have been exposed to this: I have a fondness for IP creation or Intellectual Property creation and this blog probably stands testimony to that fact! Which better place than to study IPR law from India’s topmost institute - National law school of India University (NLSIU).

I have written about this earlier too: http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2007/05/17/captive-product-units/

A re-look at consulting

I did some look n feel changes to my blog appearance because I was tired of the old design. I also changed the tagline from “The economic rationale of the 21st century” to “Consulting|Technology|International business” as this is what we want this blog to serve in future posts.

Ecofinglobe.com and its statistics from an year ago

I was chancing to look upon my blog’s readership and it has skyrocketed in last few months. To give you an idea of how much the readership for http://www.ecofin.wordpress.com has gone up by, Alexa rating has shown a consistent rise in my webpage ranking (it currently stands at 755139 worldwide and its India ranking is better at 58137. Furthermore, my year old blog stats shows my blog to have averaged 9999 hits way in May 2007. The current count stands at 77791.

Above means nothing if people don’t read posts. Simple page views/hits serve no value absolutely. The most important indicator that indicates the health status of a blog is its post:comment ratio. My blog’s average post:comment ratio is at about 1:2. This means, for every post I put up, I get double the # of comments. This ratio was about 2:1 last year at about the same time and it had not even reached breakeven. So, it is a satisfaction that my blog is a success in terms of these critical metrics.

Thank you, all for making this blog readable! Its only my readers who can turnaround this blog and I hope to keep you as repeat readers so the value of this blog is enhanced further!

Keep visiting back - you know where to look for me: http://www.ecofinglobe.com!

Rising inflation/tax rates/purchasing power parity

I chose three distinct topics for this post because all these are affecting those living in India one way or the other:

Another delay in the Devanahalli International airport opening!

http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2007/04/28/a-visit-to-the-devanhalli-international-airport/ 

It looks like even without a formal Government, the administration in Karnataka is equally laggard when it comes to taking quick decisions.

This airport project has again been delayed by another 1-month (the earlier date given was end of March 2008). Moreover, there has been enough hue and cry on whether to keep the HAL airport catering to needs of domestic travel since the Devanahalli International airport is not yet well connected from the city center with the typical delays that are entrenced in any Indian social sector project.

Zimbabwe hyperinflation - 66212%!

This is yet another hot contender for the “Globonomics award for the most freakish innovation - 2008″! -’Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe’! Its predicted to hit 1 million% shortly!

Yes, its true. I am not playing with large numbers here. Their economy is destroyed and a loaf of bread is worth about $3 million (Zimbabwean, of course!)

Some macro economic predictions for 2008

Here’s a caveat: I fully understand economic predictions are foolhardy and its a bunch of crap since it is not something that can be predicted. Famous investors such as billionnaire Warren Buffett etc. also share the same viewpoints about economic predictions not being practical due to the changing dynamics of economies worldwide!

I still choose to defy this and some of my predictions for 2008 are as follows. Do not worry - I will not try to state the obvious and this is a result of some tad bit of analytical analysis thrown in for it to have some meaning.

Blogging guidelines - my two cents

What are the important factors one needs to consider before one begins to blog:

1. First, get over this obsession of Google adsense. 99/100 bloggers I meet first think of making a quick buck on adsense rather than focus on quality of their blogs and its relevance towards the topic(s) chosen! This is really very disturbing statistics.

Technically, what is a recession?

There is so much talk of the world’s most misused word i.e. recession. When can we exactly use the term recession?

From 123 to 0 in just less than an year - the 123 agreement

Here is the complete text to the 123 agreement for nuclear cooperation between the United States and India.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2007/aug/90050.htm

Source: Office of the Spokesman, Washington DC, August 3, 2007

What went wrong?

To start with, the Indians wanted this deal. The Americans wanted it. The Bush-Singh alliance almost charted the entire plan. And then it fell through.

The pressure from the left pushed the deal to the right!

Lets critically analyze the implications of a deal gone sour and see if there is any hope of rejuvinating lost glory for the Manmohan Singh establishment to help regain some lost pride in a political affair gone sour!